The volunteers at WP org try to do a good job and keep things running. There is a change in personnel of the plugin review team. I understand there is a backlog, so hopefully they will be able to get caught up.

The first beta of WordPress 6.3 is available. It includes the Command Palette, improved page management, new blocks, and many other improvements.

So they have decided to rename the Command Center to “Command Palette,” which seems like a good choice.

Reusable Blocks are becoming Patterns with a sync option. The change will be included in WordPress 6.3.

Gravatar has two new updates.  One is that you can now use it for an online profile with links to your social accounts, which totally makes sense.  The second is that it now has new payment features. That doesn’t, by default, seem like part of a global avatar service. 

The Cwicly Spotlight #3 was a mind bomb – Louis-Alexander Désiré outlined two related mega features that are coming soon. The first is the introduction of Components which is like reusable blocks on steroids. The second is the introduction of Tailwind. The way they are implementing Tailwind there won’t be a slowdown in the editor and only classes you add will be included in the Tailwind style sheet. You will be able to use Tailwind components.

You will be able to turn Tailwind on or off, for those who don’t want to use it or prefer a different framework, but the Cwicly library will use Tailwind, which will allow them to provide pre-designed content that is consistently styled.

The were hints how this will play into a future Cwicly theme builder. A very exciting time ahead for Cwicly users.

The WordPress Playground is a relatively new way of running WordPress, i.e. running WordPress in your browser, using SQLite, etc. The idea has caught on and the WordPress Playground has been used at WordCamp contributor days. Now there is an iOS note taking app built on WordPress.

I’d love to see an official slimmed down version of WordPress for projects like this with the parts that need to be deprecated removed.

Pressable hosting has partnered with MainWP to create an extension that lets you create and manage Pressable websites from your MainWP dashboard.

This would be a boon for users of both Pressable and MainWP. However, I expect there may not be that many currently using both. What this does, is gives Pressable a quick dashboard so their users can manage multiple sites. For other hosting companies it may suggest an option worth pursuing.

Kevin Geary is extending the Automatic CSS workflow to include Figma. The ACSS design tokens and Frames that people are used to working with in builders such as Bricks will be available in Figma providing an end-to-end solution. This video provides a sneak peak for those who are interested. There is a wait-list signup for a July launch with teased special offered.